Outcome: Large success for Israelis, failure for Arab States. Borders in 1949End of 1948 War: borders were 50% bigger than the UN's earlier proposal.Gaza Strip-EgyptWest Bank-JordanArab RevoltCount Folke Bernadotte and UN PeacekeepingAppointed UN mediatorAttempted truce and mediation between 8 and 18 JulySecond truce attempt July 18, assassinated September 16 by underground Israeli group.UN Peacekeeping was not well received on either side. Mandate SystemAfter WWI, non-independent countries were split into 3 categories:

Palestinian Case: Difficult to sort out, many people wanted it, had been promised several different ways. Tangled with the Hussein-McMahon correspondence.Mandatory PowersBritain gave up responsibility of Palestine to the UN in 1947Britain threatened to terminate the Palestinian Mandate on May 15 1948

Mandatory powers: Countries assigned to oversee mandated countries, overseen by the L of N. The Sykes-Picot Agreement Middle East was important in WWI

Ottoman Empire entered war on November 14, 1914 with Germany

Were a problem for the Triple Entente

British began promising as the Ottoman Empire began to come apart when they entered the war

World War One1914-1918Industrial Revolution-> Western World surpassed Middle East

Oil was discovered in 1907, became vital for Western World

European involvement began not long after turn of the centuryIsrael was the home of two groups for thousands of years